In 2014, the Colorado State Patrol saw a new era of impaired driving enter into our state. In an attempt to document the trends, Colonel Scott Hernandez, Chief of the Colorado State Patrol ordered the specific tracking of marijuana related citations.

The local manufacturers from the La Junta Industrial Park (Oliver Manufacturing, Lewis Bolt & Nut, DeBourgh Manufacturing, Falcon Industries and Sprout Tiny Homes) joined forces with city and county economic development, the STEM program at Otero...